Spout-cap for oil-cans.



No. 822,624. PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906. N. NELSON.

SPOUT GAP FOR OIL CANS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.27,1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SPOUT-CAP FOR OIL-CANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'latentecl June 5, 1906.

Application filed $eptember 2'7. 1905. Serial No. 280,251.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NELS NnLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New aven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spout-Caps for Oil-Cans and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figures of reference marked thereon, to be a clear, full, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view in side elevation of an oilcan provided with one form which myimproved spout-cap may assume, the lower portion of the can being broken away; Fig. 2, a plan. view thereof; Fig. 3, a detached view, partly in plan and partly in horizontal longitudinal section, showing the front and rear links and the spring of the device.

My invention relates to an improvement in spout-caps for oil-cans, the object being to produce a simple, convenient, and effective cap adapted to be applied to any ordinary can.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a spout-cap having certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown, the cap 2 of the spout 2 is formed upon the upper edge of its flaring open end with an upturned flange 3, having a perforation 4 for the reception of an eye 5, located at the outer end of the shank 6 of the outer of two stop-links 7 and 8, each made by suitably bending a single piece of wire. The rear link 8 is formed at its rear end with a shank 9, terminating in an eye 10, receiving a fastening-wire 11, formed at its ends with eyes 12, passing through rings or bail-ears 13, secured to the top of the can 14 and receiving the ends of the bail 15, which is furnished with an ordinary handle 16. The stop-links 7 and 8 are encircled and inclosed b atapering spring 17, the outer end of which through a loop 18, formed between the shank 6 and the link 7, while its inner end is hooked through a loop 19, formed between the link 8 and the shank 9. I form the outer end of the is hooked spring tapering, ward over the tapering spout 1t Wlll clear the same, which it might not do if it was of the same diameter throughout its length. As the spring 17 is extended the adjacent ends of the links approach each other until they finally engage, and thus prevent any further extension of the spring, which is in this way prevented frombeing extended so far as to set. As shown, the ends of the wires used in forming the link 7 are bent into a coil 20 around the shank 6, which is thus protected and reinforced, while the ends of the wire from which the link 8 is formed are bent around the shank 9 to form a coil 21, which protects and reinforces the same.

It will be understood, of course, that the parts above described are constructed, pro portioned, and arranged so that when the cap 2 is applied to the spout 2 the spring 17 will be under sufiicient tension to hold it firmly in place and so that the said spring may be sufficiently extended for the removal of the cap from the spout without bringing the stop functions of the links 7 and 8 into play, these links exercising that function only when the springs are extended more than is necessary for engaging the cap with and disengaging it from the spout.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some changes from the construction herein shown and described may be made. Thus, if desired, the 'eye 10 may be passed directly through a ring or staple 22, located in the top of the can, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1, between the base of the spout 2 and the threaded nipple 23, provided for the reception of the filling-cap, which is not shown. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such departures therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is i The combination with a spout-cap for an oil-can, of an outer and an inner link inter- 1 locked with each other, the former being connected with the cap and the latterbeing adaptspecification in the presence of two subscribed to be connected with an oil-can, of a spring ing witnesses. encircling the said outer and inner links, connected at one end with the outer link and at NELS NELSON 5 the other end with the inner link, and being Witnesses:

thus limited in its extension by the links. CI-IAs. G. SUNDBERG,

Intestimony whereof I have signed this V. E. BONANDER. 

